THE BRITISH THREAD II

In a nutshell smorgsi my old luv! I'm a very grumpy bugger at present, so I'm keeping myself in check. Especially with that gormless idiotic Yorkshire oink!

On Monday next it will be eight weeks without a fag, not even a drag! After fifty years of puffing on the bloody things, it ain't easy, and I'm detoxing the lungs at the same time, which doesn't help. Exercise to the limit and all sorts of other silly things one might think, but as long as I think it's doing me good, it don't really matter what anyone thinks.

I'm doing a great deal of cycling to work on the fitness and lung de-tox I might take it up full time, I rather think it would be hard work to cycle up or down Shap with a fag in my gob!

I'm intending doing a long jungle trek in the Yunnan territories and Burma in the New Year as well, which I know I couldn't possibly manage unless my physical fitness levels were of a standard not achieved since I was about 35 years of age. Again others might think its daft at my age, but I don't give a monkey's toss, I feel like doing it and that is all that matters!

If that Gibbon cock sucking pillock from Yorkshire wants to spend his days twitching his idle fat lazy arse on his sofa, that's fine by me! I'll carry on with my topics and he can watch cricket balls all day.

Enjoy yourself duck and thanks for your interest! It's nice to know somebody on this thread shows an interest.

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Mathos wrote-



That is a philosophy only appropriate to an organism which has not acquired the use of language.

Thus it is inconsistent, incoherent even, for it to be expressed in language.

To the extent that it justifies everyone else adopting it it is subversive.

I would start smoking if I was you old boy. I have noticed that non-smokers have a distinct tendency to become narcissistic which might be an explanation for why that bunch of narcissists in that ridiculous last Parliament voted for a ban on smoking in pubs and thus proved that they have lost the plot.

It might even be that smoking was invented and developed precisely in order to reduce narcissism and thus pave the way for difficult and dangerous missions such as colonising and civilising the world.

It is well known that tobacco supplies are a top priority for senior officers in charge of troops in battlefields. In a communication to Washington an American general gave tobacco supplies priority over ammunition during the Great War. That is on the record.

The ravages of age cannot, unfortunately, be staved off by riding up and down Shap. I think most medical experts are agreed that busting a gut exacerbates the ravages of age. One might think that it shortens life simply due to one having to sleep more during the recovery phase.

I cannot, for the life, imagine what possibly use a long jungle trek in the Yunnan territories and Burma can have apart from it impressing some nitwit. The man on the Clapham omnibus would laugh at the idea.

In the pub last night the three plasma screens were showing a triathalon.
The consensus was that the participants were all off their rockers. They certainly looked like they were assuming they weren't making a profit and that seemed unlikely. I'd bet none of them smoked.

BTW- smorgsie has no interest in your well being. She was simply stuck for something to post. And the proper precedure for a gentleman after a conversational gambit like that from a refined lady is to talk about her and not about your bloody silly self. Ladies are naturally narcissistic for sound evolutionary reasons.

Men are merely useful and expendable tools for their use.

. Thats what most of us freom anout the globe say about spendi.

The first 6 months are the toughest mathos. When I quit, I did it several times before it "took". Now Im repulsed by the msell of stale cigarrette smoke that hangs on peoples clothing or in their cars.

Spendi- anti-smokers arent narcissists, they merely take interest in their appearances, as opposed to smokers who, with the exception of the newly infected, have poor teeth, bad breath, sallow complexions, toneless skin, and are severely out of shape.

I would guess from that fm that you have never seen Benny Hill's sublime halitosis sketch.

Do you do peppermint throat sprays or alpine valley on a spring morning ones?

All I can say is that the pub tonight fair reeked of armpits, anuses and fat that had been heated up more times than is recommended by scientists.

That lovely fragrance of Golden Virginia has vanished and is now consigned to nostalgic rememberences of the good old days.

I will say, in my defence, that I am 6 ft tall and weigh 11stone 6llbs. You could have bowled most of the non-smokers in the pub tonight down a 1 in 50 with a twig if you assume the friction between the cellulite and the tarmac is zero.

I will forbear commenting on men who take an interest in their appearence on this occasion.

AS I will neither comment on men who dont. (we call em BUMs over here)

susparelli wrote:



BTW - smorgsie DOES have an interest in your well being. And is NEVER, I repeat NEVER stuck for something to post...

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In the movie Alphaville there are only two characters shown smoking. One is the hero, Lemmy Caution, who smokes a lot and gets the the evil scientist's daughter, and the other is Dr Vonbraun himself. The rest of the characters are zombies controlled by Vonbraun's computer, Alpha 60, including his own daughter who Lemmy rescues and presumably rehabilitates.

You cringing non-smokers couldn't even supply the demand to create your own non-smoking pubs and so you banned all pubs from allowing smoking in order to hide that sorry and sad state of affairs.

I cycled to Greenwich today

via Africa Pakistan Poland and Bangladesh, and had a cup of tea with a delightful French couple at the Islands Garden Cafe.

(Very select...cuppa T sticky bun banana and bottle of water £2.60)

Yes and I've got a broken leg. (well foot...ok bit of a foot...which doesnt hurt any more...except if I need some sympathy)

Well done Steve

Ok normal service has now been resumed...City lose, United have a lucky and very narrow win.

I'm now back from Edinburgh where the capital was en fete and very nice too.

I had haggis, neeps and tatties at the Monster Mash, a star eaterie.

That sounds like a fitting title for Spendi farmer!


I rather think he is dead from the neck down though, anything demanding physical effort appears to fall into the taboo category! That is of course how the labour government managed to walk all over him and his kind, like they were little children. Put that cigarette out and stand in the corner, or else!

Quoting Spendi

You cringing non-smokers couldn't even supply the demand to create your own non-smoking pubs and so you banned all pubs from allowing smoking in order to hide that sorry and sad state of affairs.


Have you any idea how feeble such a statement reads dick 'head?

Your the original pint and a fag man! Now you can't do that! Why?
Because you sat there like a little gutless self opinionated sad sap {for want of a better description} whilst they took the very essence of your only enjoyable existence away from you, with less trouble than taking sweets from five year olds with skulduggery as the tool of engagement.

I'm driving past pubs every day and seeing working men standing outside with a fag in one hand and a pint in the other; looking pathetic, it's a disgrace and YOU let it all happen. Your mouthing off on these pages about how clever you are and how knowledgeable you are, well what about standing up for your self? Stand up and represent the man who wants a pint and a smoke, the way he has been entitled to do for a few hundred years. Men have died with a fag in their gobs on the fields of France and elsewhere for FREEDOM, and YOU an ex service man with no bloody balls, can't , daren't, light a bloody fag up in your pub with your pint.

You'd sooner sit at home on your bloody sofa watching cricket and supping out of date cans of John Smiths extra smooth with a park drive in the ash tray, thinking your a bloody Faustian! BOLLOCKS!

fm wrote-



Sitting duck time again. I don't normally shoot at sitting ducks but when a Yank comes on the Brit thread they are fair game.

Taking up the materialist position of Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, Armstrong, Ryle, Russell and many others, and condensing it all, one might say-



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To the materialist we are a bunch of conditioned reflexes and the conditioning begins in infancy and continues throughout life . The conditioned reflex can be made to associate with events linked to the behaviour simply by proximity to the pleasure source.

The child gets pleasure from Mom's approval. She demonstrates her love. When her child is dressed "nice" she gives it her approval and thus dressing "nice" is associated with Mom's approval and love. Over the years this conditions a powerful reflex causing a person to dress "nice". Mom does this because her offspring when dressed "nicely" elicits approval from her neighbours which most Moms seek with a determination of monumental proportions.

The word "BUMS" is likewise a conditioned reflex learned from the hand that rocks the cradle. To show a disapproval of "BUMS", will gain the approval of Mom and thus her love.

When I say "concerned with one's appearence" I mean concerned above the level required to be socially acceptable. A tendency, however slight, to dandyism and foppishness. Even that minimum can be quite tiresome to display and is often seen as irksome.

What the "nicely" dressed man is wearing is a need for love and approval conditioned by Mom's love and I will readily admit that smokers have a
distinct tendency, not absolute of course but quite discernable, to have thrown off that sort of thing. The hero of Rebel Without a Cause was hardly dressed to gain the approval and love of the average American middle-class Mom.

The Little Lord Fauntleroy image is an artistic impression of the condition which originates in a very popular American book about a boy called Cedric and his Mom called Dearest.

A studious materialist can analyse and trace the use of all significant words to such sources.

The Jusuits taught me that "BUMS" were people who neglected their mental appearence. One can purchase aids to physical appearence and in fierce competitions based on that principle it is obvious large amounts of debt are often contracted.

I did my best Mathos. I fought the good fight as best I could. I got no help from anywhere. I made myself unpopular. You can't expect me to get arrested over it.

None of us realised that parliament would vote for the motion they did. We were assured by all the commentators that a less extreme ban would be passed to exclude pubs not selling prepared food. They bushwhacked us as you admit by your use of "skulduggery". We are saps. Had the complete ban been the only option on the table I'm sure we would have fought harder. It was in the end a democratic decision. We are licking our wounds. You are talking after the event.

Now they will have to live with this catastrophic blunder. We can't go in for direct action because that would undermine the authority of our State which is what those men fought and died for and whose memory has been betrayed by people who never fought for anything. I am sick to the back teeth. It has proved my wisdom in deciding never to vote. I hope every smoker will cease voting. The Tories and LibDums voted for it as well. We have a House of Commons "unfit for purpose".

And that should concern everybody.

you were educated by Jesuits spendy?

At university I lodged with chap (very clever fellow) who was a product of the Society of Jesus. his comment on the brotherhood.."Abslolute ****ing bastards all of them" you have my sympathy and respect.

I promise to be less judgementable in future

And another thing Mathos before you go comparing me to a five year old having its toffees sneaked off it when it wasn't looking.

You are opposed to the war. And opponents of that had an organised demonstration, more than one, against that which I don't recall you having taken part in. And that is more serious that a smoking ban in pubs isn't it.

And in the vote on that we all knew what they were voting for.

We had no such organised demo because we didn't think they would go as far as they did. They misled us.

Balls didn't come into it in our case. They did in your's. At least our opponents believe themselves to be saving lives and money. In the case of the war in Iraq your opponents were going to cost lives and money and have done so. And the lives of men who are wearing the same uniform as those whose names you took in vain to make your silly point.

suspenci
Brevity is at the core of witold girl. You, on the other hand need to publish a table of contents for your posts.

Steve, a number of us had Jesuit backgrounds and it hasnt hurt me in the lest. As an agnostic, I find Ive derived more of my appreciation of hard evidence from them. Memeber, they were severely marginalized by the catholic church twice in their history.

Its obvious that suspendis classes in creative writing were more often than not taught by accountants.. When you get a better aim give it a try, Yanks most often like to get to the point, that must be our difference

spendopholese said:

QUOTE]Mom's [/QUOTE]

...and more than once.

Get a grip, spends!

When did ya'll become 'merican?

Probably effing' hummin' yankee doodle as he was writing it.

I'm off to shave my legs.

TTFN

I've got deja vu!

How'd I manage that, like?

Could someone explain wii to me.

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Mercian to me means exogamy when there's a wire netting fence you have to get it through on the border behind which they are keeping the little darlings to themselves and thus undermining evolutionary principles.

Yeats and Powys and all that druid shite.

Do ladies who shave their legs get five o'clock shadow or is it, in the case of chubbly pinkies, peach fluff? As in bum-fluff except it costs more.